After the ordeal with Samara, Rachel and Aiden move to a rural town. But soon Rachel learns about the death of a girl in a similar fashion. To save Aiden, she must dig into Samara's past even further.
Acting
Naomi Watts sells absolute nonsense with her whole chest.
Direction
Original Ringu director returns, somehow less terrifying.
Director
Hideo Nakata
Naomi Watts
Rachel Keller
Simon Baker
Max Rourke
David Dorfman
Aidan Keller
Elizabeth Perkins
Dr. Emma Temple
Gary Cole
Martin Savide
Sissy Spacek
Evelyn
Ryan Merriman
Jake
Emily VanCamp
Emily
Kelly Overton
Betsy
James Lesure
Doctor
Daveigh Chase
Samara (archive footage)
Kelly Stables
Evil Samara
Cooper Thornton
Father of Emily
Marilyn McIntyre
Mother of Emily
Jesse Burch
Male Reporter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hideo Nakata directed the original 1998 Japanese Ringu but passed on the 2002 American remake—he took this sequel instead, which critics found inferior to Gore Verbinski's first film.
Sissy Spacek's cameo as Samara's institutionalized mother was meant to evoke Carrie parallels, but her single scene couldn't salvage the film's muddled mythology expansion.
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